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The price of the rare earth metals the world buys from China | BBC News
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3:11Now PlayingChina has a tight grip on the supply of rare earth minerals used in everyday products like smartphones and TV screens.
But the BBC has discovered that Beijing's dominance of the market comes at a huge environmental cost.
The BBC's Laura Bicker has travelled to two of the country's largest mining zones where polluted water and contaminated soils are the toxic legacies of mineral mining.
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